Ahmed, Arif (2010) Smokers and psychos: Egan cases don't work. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Andy Egan's Smoking Lesion and Psycho Button cases are supposed to be counterexamples to Causal Decision Theory (CDT). I argue that if well-known Newcomb type cases don't already refute CDT then neither do Egan's cases. In any event Egan's cases add nothing new to whatever case already exists against CDT.
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Item Type: | Preprint | ||||||
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Keywords: | Causal Decision Theory | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Decision Theory |
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Depositing User: | Arif Ahmed | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2010 11:18 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2010 11:18 | ||||||
Item ID: | 8341 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Decision Theory |
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Date: | 17 October 2010 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/8341 |
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